An odd problem with our printing started today - the printer wouldn't.
We were getting error messages like:

$ lpq
Get_local_host: hostname '-f' bad
$ lpr test
Get_local_host: hostname '-f' bad

It took me a while to realise that somehow the hostname had changed to
"-f", and this took out the whole printing system.

The hostname was correct after the system had been booting, according
to /var/log/messages, so I assume that at some stage I must have typed
"hostname -f" as root!  I have no recollection of doing so, though.

luke

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